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WagesOf

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#Denver server admin clinging to life after COVID, trying to beat AI to making the penultimate novel about our times. Looking to stop doing piecemeal consulting work in IT infrastructure and go W2 again.

#ROGAlly is my daily driver, #SteamDeck is also damn good but I just can't do 800p.

#homelab #android #writing #mastoart #rogally #pcvr #videogames #retrogaming

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dilmandila , to bookstodon
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I'm trying to read This Is How You Lose The Time War, but I'm struggling to understand what is going on, and I'm not sure if it gets better. It feels like a dense read. I heard so much about it, but perhaps I'm too impatient?

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WagesOf ,
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@dilmandila @bookstodon if you're not enjoying it as sappy poetry you probably won't care much about the story itself.

inkishkingdoms , to bookstodon
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The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

52% into this novel and I am struggling 😅 but I am not at the same time. I just need someone to stop describing EVERYTHING

Was it necessary to describe how to do a google search on a phone? 😒😒😒 @bookstodon

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e187c720-2661-4bf6-80ec-0a3ed3e0d2d2

WagesOf ,
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@inkishkingdoms @bookstodon I DNFed Sliprunner because the same characters complained about and or described the exact same things more than ten times each.

Oof, what a slog that was. 🫤

CindySue , to bookstodon
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What is everyone reading? I feel like I haven't picked a book up in ages.

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WagesOf ,
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@CindySue @bookstodon the sequel to the movie Heat that I just found out existed!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60162230-heat-2

SimonRoyHughes , to folklore
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“Don’t worry,” I thought, “it's only a preface; it won’t take more than an evening to translate. Put it off until later.”

It’s later.

The preface is 22 pages long. The language is old-fashioned, the argument is convoluted. It’s taken me a week so far, and I’m still only ⅔ of the way through.

On the other hand, it is one of the most interesting texts I have ever read, documenting the connection between (modern) folkloric witches and their familiars, valkyries, and the goddess Freya. The , , and writing communities need to read it.

@folklore @norwegianfolktales @writingcommunity

A footnote from the text: A German journalist and poet [Julius Hammer] states in truth: “There are no poetic flowers that are so difficult to imitate as folktales and legends. Artificial flowers of this kind betray themselves as soon as they are made, even if they come from the most skilled hand.”

WagesOf ,
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@SimonRoyHughes @folklore @norwegianfolktales @writingcommunity yeah, I'd read the shit out of that.

susurros , to bookstodon
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I forgot to share about February's reading. Read 11 books last month, with my two favorites being

  • "The Unbalancing" by R.B. Lemberg

  • "Unexpected Stories" by Octavia E. Butler

What have you been reading and enjoying lately?

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WagesOf ,
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@susurros @bookstodon I'm exploring the alien zone with Roadside Picnic and blindly smashing my brain against The Annotated Turing by Petzold.

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@voxpopsicle @susurros @bookstodon not yet, but it's in the pile for when I finish up the book.

70s has such great flavor.

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@voxpopsicle @susurros @bookstodon it's more of a hand holding exploration of the papers that he wrote defining the touring machine.

A tiny bit of background then it's a math textbook.

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@voxpopsicle @susurros @bookstodon plus it has an actual ending.

Schnuckster , to bookstodon
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I was going to read this Hemingway much more in the pub today, but something entirely unnecessary and brutal just happened in it, and I feel I should pause. @bookstodon 📖

WagesOf ,
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@Schnuckster @bookstodon something happened in the pub or in the book? 🤔

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon Do you own any autographed books? If so, did you personally meet the author at a signing?

WagesOf ,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon yep, I love conventions and live readings. Buying hardcovers from my fav authors gets me great books and so much more of the $ ends up in the artist's pocket.

CindySue , to bookstodon
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When you're on the last few pages of your book and you waffle between wanting to finish and wanting it to last forever.

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WagesOf ,
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@CindySue @bookstodon Neal Stephenson has entered the chat.

willaful , to romancelandia
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Very interesting post from Chuck Tingle on being dis-invited to the Texas Library Association Conference.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/texas-library-to-96183885

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WagesOf ,
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@willaful @romancelandia my grandfather with dementia writes just like this.

Ignored punctuation, random capitalization and all caps.

Get help, either a doctor or an editor.

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I just found a graphic novel created in landscape, and I wonder why there aren't more like it? What a great way to spatially render citywide or other wide lens views. It seems like the best perspective for visual depth.

This one is titled ALL OVER COFFEE, by Paul Madonna, published by City Light Books in San Francisco. It is hard to describe, like poetic musings about everything we edit out of our attention in favor of the practical everyday, accompanied by art and architecture, from the micro to the macro.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon for the lazy https://paulmadonna.com/all_over_coffee/

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon In my quest for physical copies of several out of print books, I have had some success with BookFinder, Abe, Thrift Books, Bookshop, and Better World Books. Are there other services I should try?

I'm trying to expand my Stephen Graham Jones collection in particular, and it's daunting, esp. finding THE LONG TRIAL OF NOLAN DUGATTI in print. Ha. Maybe it's my long trial.

WagesOf ,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon I don't know if paperbackswap is completely dead yet but it may be worth a search.

MagentaRocks , to bookstodon
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Reading is not a competition.

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WagesOf ,
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@MagentaRocks @bookstodon that's what second place always says.

🤣

codemonkeymike , to random
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Ok folks. If you were building a Linux gaming PC (mainly steam) what distro would you install?

ChimeraOS, Nobara, something else?

WagesOf ,
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@codemonkeymike gaming only? Chimeraos. Gaming w some light other pc shenanigans? Nobara or popos depending on how new your hardware is.

infinitesoleil , (edited ) to bookstodon
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Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

My rating: 4.5 ⭐️

⚠️ This review contains spoilers. ⚠️

This book definitely had me gripping its pages and wanting to know what was going to happen next. I love a good novel, and I also love the concept of , so combining the two was perfect. Did I know this book would be about time travel initially? No. I wanted to read it because it's a mystery/thriller. But as soon as Jen woke up on Day Minus One, then Day Minus Two, I knew. At first, I was confused by the frequent time skips and didn't understand why they were so random, but after learning that they may be happening so that Jen can pay more attention to the details of her surroundings and interactions, it made more sense. Like, if you had a chance to go back and do things differently, would you do it?

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From: @infinitesoleil
https://federatedfandom.net/@infinitesoleil/111189272301816586

WagesOf ,
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@infinitesoleil @bookstodon if you don't include which book the spoiler in the cw is for nobody can safely click thru.

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon Now that it's October, let's do a Five Fave Modern Horror book list.
My contemporary spooky reads top five:

  1. The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones

  2. The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins

  3. Slade House, David Mitchell

  4. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, Bryan Evenson

  5. Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon

WagesOf ,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon October is always a good time to plumb the depths of the House of Leaves. 🏡🎃

18+ ottsatwork , to bookstodon
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Book 2: “Cat Burglar Black” by .

I saw some of his art online and thought it looked like “Invisible Hands” from Liquid Television, which I LOVED. Same artist! This didn’t have quite the same level of twisted, creepiness as that animated series, but I was so happy to find his work in comic form. There’s more too.

Someone stitched together all the “”. The voice acting is 🤌🏽 https://youtu.be/n5sP4yRb8Mw

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Panel 1, someone in bed, their head covered in bandages, eyes staring and teeth bared. A weak whisper: "Come closer, Katherine. Let me see you..." Panel 2 a severe looking older woman with her hands around the shoulders of a tentative, white-haired teen: "Don't be shy. Say hello to your aunt."

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@ottsatwork @bookstodon this is one of the few that I dnfed on this year for all the reasons uph list.

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